Hydroponics Pothos Propagation Experiment 

yeah what i desperately want to figure out is how to get root rot so i can find ways to prevent it. people ask me how to stop it but ive never experienced it so its gotta be the water some people have available

@@TechplantChannel I think most people are experiencing rot on propagation from cuttings they got online. They're slightly older and have gone through the mail, while yours are fresh.

nice! I bet an hour a day is all it really needs to replenish the oxygen and keep disturbance to a minimum thanks for the input!

Ill add it to the list!

Thank you!

Thank you! Will do!

Thanks 👍

Same! Id suggest getting into aquariums too. I picked up that hobby and i have a little 6 gallon tank with tons of live plants, shrimp, snails, and even some tiny fish its a blast and keeps me sane!

Techplant I used to have aquariums years ago. Now I put the same plants in big bowls with charcoal being the first layer

Glad it was helpful!

Awesome, thank you! i just want to break 100k to get the dumb silver button lol

Coming soon!

Techplant yaya! Im trying to soil propergate :) i hope it work!!!

Same! Would love to see something on this. I hear in other videos people saying to just use the method that works for you, which doesn't say which is the better method -- that suggestion only really means that some people tend to over/underwater making the soil/moss methods generate rot. It would be nice to know which actually works best for faster propagation of the plant.

Thanks for the kind words, the pothos are slowly taking over lol, there are many pots of it now

Glad you like them!

yeah I don't think it will hurt thats for sure, It will keep your water really oxygenated.

Thank you! Will do!

yeah i want to do more species but its hard to keep multiples of the same plant. But i will try! techplant.official on IG

thats been my experience with rooting hormone. it creates a film on the surface of the water choking out the plants. I will do some experiments tho!

Awesome! I saw your other comment, it was very technical and im going to read more about thanks for watching!

lol, thanks for watching!

I bet it will, i did a vid on nutrients earlier and it worked well

I am also doing a similar experiment now where I use peppermint cuttings. I have two jars, each one has 5 similar sized cuttings. One of them has plain water and the other one nutrients for hydro. The cuttings in the jar with nutrients definitely grow and develop roots faster!

Thank you! Cheers!

sure

ive got some theories on why people experience root rot and one of them is a lack of oxygen in the water. I was hoping an increased amount would show a difference in root growth but sadly it didnt

​@@TechplantChannel I think in your experiment there was enough oxygen in water for your plants. But if bacteria develops and exceeds a threshold, I expect it will start feeding on the roots, thus damaging them. I was doing a similar "experiment" this summer, I had two pots, one where the plants roots were submerged in water and second where they were planted only in compost from the nursery store. The plants in compost died of root rot after 1 month even though I was watering only when the soil was almost completely dry and the plants were wilting. The other ones which are only in water are still growing today (it's been already 6 months since I started). So, I tend to believe oxygen plays an important role but also bacteria population does. In a sterile environment, I don't think it's possible to get root rot. The compost we buy from stores is not yet 100% broken down and is still using oxygen to do so, which means the roots have less available oxygen and the (unwanted) bacteria population is much higher. Found out your channel recently and really enjoying your experiments! Wish you a great day!

a few people have mentioned that, I will try it!

ive heard distilled water can be acidic, but some people can also have terrible tapwater so its hard to say, ive used both

ill have to try some diff species next

Very true!

I do this! Pothos is the most wonderful thing to grow in the aquarium! I have mad growth from my fish pooping 🤣 and clean water from my plants! Win win!!!

ill add that to the list

Would be waiting! 😊

thats the only real difference i noticed, but towards the end both batches were pretty similar

ive filmed a few unboxings, maybe ill slap together a video!

@@TechplantChannel i like your experiment videos. my fav. subject is science & i love plants.

@@TechplantChannel my wish video is how variegated plant happens .

you saw some similar footage. I ran both experiments at the same time, so the control was in both the nutrients experiment and in this one as well

Great suggestion! as i gain more and more pothos I can get a few jars going at a time

i will try!

Great tip!

you could try that too, flowing water is good because its much more oxygen rich too!

if they are truly springtails they are beneficial to your plants! if its ready to use i and not concentrated then just spray where you wanna kill

i dont have any experience with that plant. but if it just keeps doing poorly id try a last ditch effort of repotting it and looking for root damage, then replace the soil the best you can.

i can try

i got it from walmart, Any airstone will work!

ill try, I have a rooting hormone vs water going right now and water vs soil. Ill add those!

these are just aquarium supplies from walmart

@@TechplantChannel thank you for your reply! I found some on Amazon that should be arriving today! 😆

😊 thank you

i should try that next

true but ive seen people use DWC for cloning....ah...tomatoes. So i was hoping the oxygen rich water would make them root strong and fast

ill look it up, thanks!

ill look into it, i know there are good c02 diffusers used in the aquarium hobby so i could use that

hi carter

lol

ill add it to the list

@@TechplantChannel also hydrogen peroxide

I sneak down peoples chimneys and steal some cuttings.

My pothos has 10 runners over 30ft long. Not hard to get cutting from a happy plant

@@TechplantChannel come steal mine! She is completely out of control lmao

for sure! and fish water is great for plants!